‘No fair, copycat!’: what children’s response to plagiarism tells us about their understanding of ideas

摘要: Adults believe that plagiarizing ideas is wrong, which requires an understanding others can have and it wrong to copy them. In order test when this emerges, we investigated children begin think plagiarism wrong. Study 1, aged 7, 9 11 years old, as well adults, disliked someone who plagiarized compared drew original drawing or identical picture by chance. 2 the same question with younger children, focusing on 3–6 old. Children 5–6 old evaluated plagiarizers negatively relative unique drawers, but 3–4-year-olds did not. 3 replicated findings from found justify their negative evaluations of mentioning concerns over copying. These experiments provide evidence that, age 5 understand dislike copying these ideas.